World Trade Organization

By A digest of coming events, compiled by Jeffrey Bils | April 9, 2000

The role of the World Trade Organization in trade relations between the United States and the European Union will be the subject of a free public presentation. It will be sponsored by the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, the European Law Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on International Law and Practice and the Chicago law firm of Gardner Carton & Douglas. ---------- Noon Monday, Northwestern School of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave., in...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will lower anti-dumping duties on U.S. chicken products from Wednesday in the wake of last year's ruling against Beijing by the World Trade Organization in a four-year-old dispute, the commerce ministry said. China will levy anti-dumping taxes ranging from 46.6 percent to 73.8 percent on imports from U.S. suppliers, such as Tyson Foods Inc and Pilgrim's Pride Corporation , the ministry said on its web site (www.mofcom.gov.cn) on Tuesday. It...

The U.S. set out its claims that European government spending on Airbus to develop new planes is illegal, fixing for the first time a deadline for a World Trade Organization decision on the fight with Chicago-based Boeing Co. The U.S. says Airbus has benefited from risk-free grants worth $23 billion over the past four decades. Wednesday's filing means an initial, confidential decision in the case is scheduled for September. The European Union and the U.S. filed countercases in...

GENEVA (Reuters) - China failed to overturn a U.S. law targeting unfair trade subsidies on Monday, when the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body said it did not have enough information to uphold China's appeal against an earlier WTO ruling. China had claimed that the U.S. "Public Law 112-99," also known as the GTX legislation, which was signed by President Barack Obama in March 2012, broke world trade rules, but a WTO dispute panel ruled against it in March. The...

The U.S. took its dispute over government aid for airplanemaker Airbus SAS back to the World Trade Organization, just two weeks after officials indicated they were committed to negotiating a solution. The U.S. Trade Representative's Office said it made its request Thursday to begin legal proceedings on its Oct. 6 complaint that European government loans to Toulouse, France-based Airbus amount to an illegal subsidy and should be stopped. The European Union has a...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States and China have both appealed against recent rulings in disputes at the World Trade Organization (WTO), filings published by the WTO showed on Friday. The United States said it wanted to correct some legal issues in a case that it brought jointly with the European Union and Japan, handing China a heavy defeat over its restrictions on exports of rare earth metals. The filing said the U.S. concerns would not need to be dealt with if there was no appeal...

The United States and European Union are set to lock horns again over aircraft subsidies in the latest round of a record trade dispute involving Airbus and Boeing. The United States will tell the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday that European governments have failed to obey demands to withdraw unfair subsidies for passenger jets, a U.S. source familiar with the case said. The EU will defend its record in scrapping past subsidies while insisting that funding...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Ukraine will not initiate a trade war with Russia and hopes to use the World Trade Organization to resolve any such disputes initiated by Russia, Ukraine's ambassador in Geneva told a news conference on Thursday. "I think they will not limit themselves to military intervention. They will add some famous trade wars with Ukraine. They have very good experience with that," Yurii Klymenko said. Klymenko said both countries were dependent on trade...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's trade minister on Tuesday accused the United States of excessive trade protectionism, launching a broadside that coincided with the visit of a top U.S. official to patch up a stormy bilateral friendship. Trade friction between the two countries has increased ahead of a general election in India, amid lingering tension over the recent arrest and strip search of a female diplomat in New York suspected of visa fraud. The ruling...

U.S. wants telecom access: The U.S. threatened Tuesday to take Mexico and South Africa to the World Trade Organization for failing to open their telecommunications markets. The U.S. says that in South Africa, there have been complaints that Telkom, the country's major telecommunications company, unilaterally began to deny access to some private circuits in mid-1999.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior official of the U.S. State Department will travel to India next week, a visit originally scheduled for January that was postponed due to a dispute over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York. Nisha Biswal, the U.S. assistant secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, will visit Bangalore and New Delhi from March 4-6, the State Department said. It will be her first trip to India since taking up her position last...

Early kickoff: The United States, the European Union and Canada joined Friday in a symbolic ceremony clearing the way for the launch on Sunday of the new World Trade Organization. To Champagne toasts, envoys of the three big trading powers, including officials of the 12 current EU countries, handed over documents confirming their ratification of the treaty that sets up the organization.

* Government angered by threatened U.S. trade sanctions * India violates intellectual property rights - U.S. group * WTO now hearing 14 bilateral trade cases By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI, Feb 25 (Reuters) - India has decided to block investigations by the United States into its trade policies and patent laws, and prepare for a battle at the World Trade Organization (WTO), a move that could escalate already-strained tension between the two countries. ...

Trade targets: The Clinton administration targeted Europe, India, South Korea, Canada and Argentina for various alleged unfair trade practices against American companies. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said the administration would bring seven new cases before the World Trade Organization in a variety of disputes ranging from European aviation practices to Indian barriers affecting U.S. automakers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday proposed a series of bilateral trade negotiations with the United States under the umbrella of a hoped-for new trade agenda between the two countries, a senior Russian official said. He said Russia, in a meeting with top U.S. trade officials on Wednesday, had floated the idea of establishing a framework for talks that could lead to up to five separate deals, beginning with a pact on investment. "Maybe we won't call it...

"We (the European Union and U.S.) are both standing at the side of the ballroom, waiting for the Chinese advance. It might be that a broader smile is needed to attract the Americans than us." Sir Leon Brittan, EU trade commissioner, on efforts to enlist China in the World Trade Organization over U.S. objections

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization reached its first ever trade reform deal on Saturday to the roar of approval from nearly 160 ministers who had gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali to decide on the make-or-break agreement that could add $1 trillion to the global economy The approval came after Cuba dropped a last-gasp threat to veto the package of measures. "For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly...

The U.S. is expected to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization this week alleging that the Japanese government colluded with Fuji Photo Film to block sales in Japan by Eastman Kodak Co. and other foreign producers.